Kaliny-kaliny (Honey grevillea)

$3,900.00

The kaliny-kaliny or honey grevillea flower is a favourite bush food of the Anangu. The flowers can be picked and placed in a billycan of water to create ‘honeywater’ (cordial) or they can be sucked for their sweet honey dew. 

Umatji Tjitayi is an emerging painter with Ernabella Arts. Her first exhibition was for Family at Signal Point Regional Gallery in South Australia. Her work is in the collection of the Royal Perth Hospital. Her mother, Angkuna, was the first Pitjantjatjara teacher at the Ernabella Mission in the 1950s. Umatji and her sister, Katrina, also took to the profession. Umatji taught as a primary school teacher at Ernabella Anangu School for 20 years and continues to work in the primary school and family centre.